MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS. HIS SENTENCE WAS HANDED DOWN IN FEDERAL COURT. A JUDGE DECIDED EARLIER TODAY THAT NAGIN WILL SPEND A DECADE IN JAIL. REPORTER GINA SWANSON IS LIVE AT 4 WITH MORE ON NAGIN'S SENTENCE. GINA? FORMER MAYOR RAY NAGIN'S SENTENCE WAS A DOWNWARD DEPARTURE FROM THE GUIDELINES... AND CERTAINLY A LOT LESS THAT MANY EXPECTED. MOST ANALYSTS THOUGHT NAGIN WAS LOOKING AT 15-20 YEARS OR MORE...PROSECUTORS OBJECTED TO THE SENTENCE AND WERE PUSHING FOR MORE TIME ...FOR THE FORMER MAYOR CONVICTED ON 20 PUBLIC CORRUPTION CHARGES INCLUDING BRIBERY, TAX EVASION AND WIRE FRAUD. THE GOVERNMENT AND ULTIMATELY A JURY BELIEVED NAGIN USED HIS OFFICE TO ENRICH HIMSELF AND STEERED LUCRATIVE CONTRACTS TO SEVERAL BUSINESSMEN IN EXCHANGE FOR CASH, GIFTS, TRAVEL AND OTHER SERVICES. NAGIN SUPPORTERS BELIEVE THE SENTENCE WAS FAIR. THEY GO ON TO SAY THE FORMER MAYOR DID MAKE SOME MISTAKES WHILE IN OFFICE...ESPECIAL LY BY SURROUNDING HIMSELF WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE. after a while of running around with those people temptation is something 6:14 the wrong advice led him to this point where hs is at right now what ray nagin did was sell his office, over and over and over again. NAGIN HAD SOME VERY VOCAL SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE OF FEDERAL COURT... INSIDE JUDGE GINGER BARRIGAN'S COURTROOM WAS PACKED ...THERE WAS EVEN AN OVERFLOW IN FEDERAL COURT. A DAY SOME THOUGHT WOULD NEVER COME. THE FORMER MAYOR IS SET TO REPORT TO FEDERAL PRISON AT OAKDALE SEPTEMBER 8. WHILE NAGIN EVADED THE MAXIMUM PRISON SENTENCE

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